Crafts I knew going into college: typical high school art class content (drawing, painting, sculpting, some engraving, and very basic use of a pottery wheel), braiding, tying knots in strings (from a knot book), basic sewing skills (repair ripped seams, sew buttons back on), minimal cross-stitch
Crafts learned since entering college: chain mail weaving (freshman year), knitting (freshman year), blackwork (sophomore year), machine sewing (sophomore year), button making (junior year), tatting (junior year)
Observations: I will study jewelry and clothing to identify the ways in which they were made. I will also ask to touch interesting looking material (for people with whom I am less familiar), or simply start petting friends' clothes.
Purpose of this blog: 1) Record thoughts on crafts and their respective patterns. 2) Monitor skill progress. 3) Use literary devices, most especially puns, with reckless abandon.
Most recent enterprises: knitting items to sell at a local convention, teaching myself tatting
Short term goals: finish fingerless gloves (two pairs, one glove of each pair remaining), tat a bracelet with beads
Long term goals: incorporate beadwork into more projects, have a Respectable Inventory by April 3
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